Christy Rozek--Assignment #5--60-year old photograph

I strolled through the museum, stopping to admire the repulsive modern art. I made my way from the wing with all the “good” art, into the modern art section. On my way there, I passed a nine foot canvas with a single paint splatter on it. It was titled “Goog.” There were some other things, abstract photographs, scary sculptures… But this wasn’t really modern art anymore, because none of this stuff was under fifty-years-old. Hey, this is pretty weird, there’s a piece in here titled “untitled” that is of a person who looks JUST LIKE my mother? The woman seems to be in her forties, she has long amber hair, wearing one of of my mother’s iconic peasant skirts, and standing on top of my house. Except the weird thing is there’s a horse drawn carriage going by in the background. Under “untitled” it has “artist name: Anonymous, 1949.” I opened-up my bag and pulled out my cell phone, hit the number that said “mom,” and waited for her voice. While I was standing there I noticed that the woman in the picture was wearing the necklace that I made for her when I was seven. It was a pretty big print of the photo; I could even barely see my very young signature that I attached to the necklace.
Ten minutes later, I found myself in handcuffs being stuffed into a police car. Apparently cell-phones are not supposed to be used in the museum, and you aren’t supposed to take the art off the wall and stick it in your bag. I was explaining to the police why I was grabbing the picture, but fifteen minutes later I was sat down in a small room with an officer who had a big stack of papers and a very smoky cigar.